A progressive daily ledger of Trump-world self-owns, legal pain, policy blowback, and bad-faith chaos.
1 verified report published on February 12, 2021.
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By February 12, Trump’s problem wasn’t just that he’d lost power. It was that every institution touching his name — Congress, the courts, and the public record — was busy turning his presidency into a case file.
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The Senate’s second impeachment trial kept moving on February 12, and the day’s proceedings made one thing painfully clear: Trump’s January 6 conduct was not fading into history, it was being reread into the record line by line. Senators and trial participants spent the day circling the same core fact pattern — Trump’s months-long election lies, his pressure campaign on the vice president, and the mob that followed.